A 34-year-old Nigerian man, Adetunji Abudu, has been arrested in the United States over an alleged money laundering conspiracy involving millions of dollars obtained through fraud schemes targeting elderly Americans.
Abudu, from Lagos, Nigeria, was arrested on Monday night at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, while attempting to re-enter the United States from Istanbul, Turkey.
According to a statement from US authorities, he appeared before the US District Court in Rhode Island on October 21, 2026, and was ordered detained pending trial.
He is one of six defendants charged in a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Providence over an alleged conspir...
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US arrests Nigerian man who fled to Nigeria in 2019 over money laundering
Source: Vanguard News
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